Question about Fear & Loathing

[Smokin EnDo]

METH IS AN UPPER!!! He Never said they were pills. And that IS how yous moke meth. No one put pot in a globe at the end to vaperize it. You do that to meth.

[usedchemicals]

"a whole galazy of multicolored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers"

He's describing pills.

yeah, he never does say that they were pills

[sanguinekane]

METH IS AN UPPER!!! He Never said they were pills. And that IS how yous moke meth. No one put pot in a globe at the end to vaperize it. You do that to meth.

It also happens to be a crude (very crude) way of vaping bud. If you want to believe it's meth, fine, go ahead, that's your choice, and I can see that anything I say is not going to convince you otherwise. I'm just saying that I can say with what I believe to be a fairly high degree of certainty that what he smokes in that scene is bud and not meth.

[BigNugs4U]

I always thought it was meth, since the scene surrounds him with a shroud of t.v. static, kind of in a "wired" way. He did not specify the uppers as pills, as smokin endo says. And in addition, the light bulb is like a meth skillet in that it has a stem proceeding to a bulb.

[SmokingPlatypus]

meth is never mentioned in the list of drugs at the begining,

"And an entire galaxy of multicolored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers and spinners."

Could be meth in that list.

[sanguinekane]

Yeah, I admit that meth COULD be in that list, but having read almost everything Hunter S. Thompson wrote, I don't see him as someone who would do meth. Speed, yes, but not meth specifically. The fact that meth only began to be made for recreational use in the late 60's also leads me to believe that it simply wouldn't have had the time to permeate the drug culture to reach a point where it would have been written about in a major work.

[Binzhoubum]

I've read the book many times and seen the movie many times.

He is smoking HASHISH! He says so. He says something like I just need to get some good rest and drink a little rum and smoke some hash.

It was a hash pipe.

:smokin:

[Binzhoubum]

It is hashish...I assure you all. He mentions it in the BOOK. :smokin:

[delta9thc06]

Im pretty sure its freebase cocaine, cause thats how ya do it.

[delta9thc06]

This too http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freebase